Microsoft vows to protect its Dreamers in court

Swim19 · Swim19

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Brad Smith, the company president, said in a blog post Tuesday that President Trump's decision to end the program known as DACA is "a big step back for our entire country." The company said it knows of 39 employees covered by the protection.

"If the government seeks to deport any one of them, we will provide and pay for their legal counsel," he wrote.
Smith said the company will also explore whether it can intervene directly in any such case.

"In short, if Dreamers who are our employees are in court, we will be by their side," Smith said.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/05/news...nse/index.html

dreamer__13 · dreamer__13

Other companies will follow lmao. This issue isn't going away overnight. Dream Act 2017!

eva02 · eva02

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Originally Posted by Swim19

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/05/news...nse/index.html

What about when they can't work for them anymore because their EAD expires

BeeHive · BeeHive

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Originally Posted by eva02

What about when they can't work for them anymore because their EAD expires

maybe try to sponsor them somehow

VJB2 · VJB2

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Originally Posted by BeeHive

maybe try to sponsor them somehow

I really hope some of them used DACA to clear their EWI for this to be a possibility.

texaskid · texaskid

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Originally Posted by eva02

What about when they can't work for them anymore because their EAD expires

There were news of companies looking into relocating such employees to their overseas locations, I guess they'd do/try to do the same.

2MoreYears · 2MoreYears

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Originally Posted by eva02

What about when they can't work for them anymore because their EAD expires

They can be relocated overseas, e.g. MS has offices in India and MX.

hayire · hayire

How do they know they have DACA employees? Did they out themselves? I wonder if my employer knows?

This is not something I tell people about.

BeeHive · BeeHive

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Originally Posted by hayire

How do they know they have DACA employees? Did they out themselves? I wonder if my employer knows?

This is not something I tell people about.

C33 on your EAD.

isual · isual

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Originally Posted by BeeHive

C33 on your EAD.

wow. this is news to me. i didn't know about this either.

how would a person know if they are a c33? i understand it is by looking at the card, but - how would we have known that c33 denotes it as 'daca' ?

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